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Existentialism In The Death Of The Author

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This anxiety or despair or atmosphere is intensified with the description of chondrobora snake and death of the bird. Critics of existentialism have frequently taken angst to represent the ultimate pointlessness of life, and used it as an example of the pessimistic nature of existentialism. Characters are aware of different choices they can make but are hesitant and anxious. An existential struggle that is IN making that is meaningful in everyday life. There is a split among them on their concern for decisions and actions. Baher says to Dhorom, “ল এই তোর চিতাপরা ভুগমানের পঞ্চাশ টাকা* যা লাশ হটা*” (take this fifty taka by the name of the god. Go and take the corpse away.)(Al Deen 30). Again when Dhorom goes to take the corpse he says “আয় আয় …show more content…

Barthes criticizes the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author`s identity-his or her political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes-to distill meaning from author’s work. In this type of criticism, the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive "explanation" of the text. For Barthes, this method of reading may be apparently tidy and convenient but is actually sloppy and flawed. Barthes asserts that the Author is dead because "To give a text an Author" and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it "is to impose a limit on that text". To him, the author does not create meaning in the text: one cannot explain a text about the person who wrote it. Barthes attributes "authorship" to the reader who forms meaning and understanding. So, it is actually a reader s response saying Chaka as an existential play maintaining the existential …show more content…

The humanity of the marginalized peoples intensifies here the inhumanity of the society. Chaka stresses the risk, the frustration of human reality and admits that the human being is thrown into the world, the world in which pain, sickness, contempt, malaise and death dominates. The story of Chaka revolves around a dead body which the cart-puller and his companions have to return to its village. This simple story actually questions the solitude of human existence. Through Chaka Selim Al Deen envisions a world where man is seen to be an impoverished creature, preoccupied with his own suffering and deprived of the basic realities of life. The frivolity of human existence, the alienation of the individual from an extremely hostile society, freedom and responsibility as well as the religious and spiritual detachment of the mass are some of the major components that contribute to the making of Chaka as

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